All posts tagged "Christianity"
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South by Ralph Wood
January 27, 2025Flannery O’Connor was Catholic and Southern, and that combined with her genius produced a writer whose...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Poems of Jesus Christ Translated by Willis Barnstone
January 3, 2025As Barnstone notes in his introduction, Aramaic has verse forms that are difficult to render in...
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Art
Crossing Borders: Manuscripts from the Bodleian Libraries — Jewish Museum of New York
November 9, 2024To look at one of the treasures on display in this wonderful exhibit, the Kennicott Bible,...
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Books
Book Review: Through the Eye of a Needle by Peter Brown
October 23, 2024Brown writes that Christian leaders had to carefully deploy Church resources, spiritual and financial, to create...
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Art
Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
July 15, 2024The Metropolitan Museum exhibition charts the fascinating, if complex, process of cultural transformation that took place...
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Art
Art Review: Transition to Christianity, Onassis Cultural Center, New York City
June 8, 2024After Christianity was recognized as the official state religion of the Roman Empire in 380, a...
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Movies
Courageous: A Closer Look
May 22, 2024Is Courageous great art? By almost any accepted measure, no. Is it meant to be great...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman
February 17, 2024The premise of Philip Pullman’s new book is brilliant. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Jesus: A Biography from a Believer by Paul Johnson
January 28, 2024Jesus of Nazareth started to preach and heal the sick when he “was beginning about the...
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Spain
God’s Crucible by David Levering Lewis
November 22, 2023For English-speaking peoples, 1066 and 1776 still evoke powerful recollections of liberty lost and freedom won....